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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Amazon Web Services' "Workspaces" desktop-as-a-service offering can now be paid for by the hour.
Workspaces are a cut of Windows Server 2008 with a Windows 7 skin and are consumed with a custom client application. Until today, the service was sold by the month for a fixed price that included storage.
That's now called the "Always On" mode. There's now also a new "AutoStop" mode in which desktops shut down after you disconnect for a certain amount of time. AWS promises that desktops will emerge from AutoStop in 90 seconds, complete with all data.
[...] The service still needs a device running Windows, Android, iOS, Amazon's own Fire or Chrome OS. There's still no Linux client, which seems an oversight as those considering Workspaces on a PC would surely like the chance to run them without having to worry about Windows licences. Nor is there a way to use Workspaces on a thin client or Raspberry Pi, arrangements that look like matches made in cloud desktop heaven.
But why grump about such things on the day that slightly slow and weird desktops became something that can be rented by the hour? Truly we live in an age of wonders .... ®
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @04:26PM
Not really helpful even then. You have to fix your broken PC enough to upload your data to the cloud. Or find a PC to do the upload. If you do either, then you probably don't need the cloud in the first place. Now let's talk about the upload. How much data was that? How long will that take?
(Score: 1) by Francis on Saturday August 20 2016, @05:29PM
If you haven't got backups, then you deserve whatever happens to you. If your computer breaks and you don't have backups, then there's not really anything that can be done about that at that point. If you're lucky, the part that broke wasn't the disk and you can just go out and buy the part you need and keep going, but realistically, there's no excuse for being in that sort of situation.